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@node stat
@section @code{stat}
@findex stat
POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/stat.html}
Gnulib module: stat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
On some platforms, @code{stat("link-to-file/",buf)} succeeds instead
of failing with @code{ENOTDIR}.
FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 9.
@item
On some platforms, @code{stat(".",buf)} and @code{stat("./",buf)} give
different results:
mingw.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{stat} may not correctly
report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB. The fix is to
use the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro.
@item
Cygwin's @code{stat} function sometimes sets @code{errno} to @code{EACCES} when
@code{ENOENT} would be more appropriate.
@item
On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{st_ino} is always 0.
@item
Because of the definition of @code{struct stat}, it is not possible to
portably replace @code{stat} via an object-like macro. Therefore,
expressions such as @code{(islnk ? lstat : stat) (name, buf)} are not
portable, and should instead be written @code{islnk ? lstat (name,
buf) : stat (name, buf)}.
@end itemize
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